Last week of home footy-netball
WE are off the bottom of the ladder.
Well done to our senior footballers last week.
I do not know what the coach said to them at three-quarter-time but we kicked six goals two to no score.
We are at home this week for the last game of the season for our footballers.
Ultima will be saving themselves for the finals and our mob have nothing to loss and a point to prove.
Our A-grade netballers had a loss to the top side so a win this week is needed to have a shot at the finals.
Our Mighty Midgets went down to the top side but they have already cemented their place in the finals.
Come over on Saturday for our last home-and-away game and grab a feed out of the best canteen in our league.
Season ending too fast
WE had a great start to this season around Moulamein but this is why we have irrigation.
If it does not rain this week, the wheels and pumps will be starting.
I know we do not have wheels anymore but it sounds better than “the automatic flow systems”.
We will all be watering very soon.
The barley grass has not gone to head yet.
Once the barley grass puts a head up, it usually means the season is over.
There is a little bit of rain forecast today.
Let’s hope it builds up to a good one.
The lambs are marked this week and all sheep will be getting moved off the dry land onto the irrigation to let the dryland pasture seed down just in case it does not rain.
Trans Grid meeting last week
I DID not get to it: doctors and accountants in the morning, funeral in the afternoon and fire brigade training that night.
I thought it would just be another talk fest and more smoke and mirrors but evidently Trans Grid wants to throw some serious money at our district.
Not just the $5000 grants they are offering now but somewhere between $10 million and $30 million, I was told.
As usual with these things, the timeline they have given us is too short.
Our town and district have to do some very serious thinking as to what we need.
Truth be told, you could buy Moulamein, Wanganella, Conargo and the Barooban Pub for less than that.
I am still in the dark due to the process of smoke and mirrors.
Trans Grid didn’t leave any extra pamphlets in town for those who could not turn up.
We have to really get our thinking caps on and work out how to use this once-in-a-generation opportunity to secure the future of our town and district.
I have my ideas; everyone else will have their ideas.
We need to get together soon to work out what we do, then just hope that our Murray River Council will let us do it.
I wonder if Moama will put in for some of the funds.
It could have been theirs if they had taken some of the pain of Green Energy.
I was interviewed by some consultant for Trans Grid after the meeting.
She asked what Trans Grid could do better.
Apart from a few other things that I told her, I just said they had to stop lying and get rid of the smoke and mirrors that they seemed to love hiding behind.
We may be from the bush but we are not as dumb as they think we are.
Just tell us the bloody truth.
Tell us where this bloody great big line will go and stop stuffing us around.
They know where it is going; they have always known where it was going to go.
They just put these red-herring ideas out there to pretend they care and want to do the right thing.
One thing I can guarantee: I will have to be on my death bed before I miss the next meeting.
Somewhere between $10 million and $30 million I was told. What a figure!
Bowel-scan kit
LET’S hope all those who have the kit sitting on the shelf have got around to doing it after my experience.
It’s not that hard.
Poop on a bit of paper, drag a stick through it, put it in the fridge to freak the kids and grandkids out, and then do it again the next day and send it off to get tested.
As you know, mine came back positive.
I got to meet the next level of Dr, The Mr who sent the SS Enterprise camera where no man or woman has been before.
The good news is that there was no cancer and you will have to put up with me for a few more years yet.
River levels
OUR Edward has had a slight rise to around 1.1 metres and just over 780 megalitres a day.
There are only a couple of weeks to go for our cod season if you would like a feed.
Fishing has been pretty lean from what I hear.
Still only three natives caught in my creek since the floods in 2022.
